Ezekiel 28:15
in Ezekiel 28From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
KJV
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
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This verse in Ezekiel 28
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThou wast perfect in thy ways - The irony seems still to be kept up. Thou hast been like the angels, like Moses, like the cherubs, like Adam, like God, till thy iniquity was found out.
This site's exposition
you were blameless in your ways
on Ezekiel 28:15-17
Thou wast perfect in thy ways, till iniquity was found in thee marks the turn, a fall from an original perfection. The cause is trade turned to violence, and pride in beauty. The sentence answers in kind, cast as profane out of the mountain of God, cast to the ground.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vers. 11 seqq.) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering: carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, onyx, and beryl, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald. Gold was the workmanship of your settings and your engravings; on the day that you were created they were prepared.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,....
He as a man, but it is here owned that he was a very considerable man and one that made a mighty figure in his day. (1.) He far exceeded other men. Hiram and other kings of Tyre had done so in their time; and the reigning king perhaps had not come short of any of them: Thou sealest up the sum full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
perfect--prosperous [GROTIUS], and having no defect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early days of wisdom and prosperity (1Ki 5:7, &c.). till iniquity . . . in thee--Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God's gifts, and so hast provoked God's wrath.
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The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תָּמִ֤ים | tamim | [were] blameless | H8549 → | 91 times |
| אַתָּה֙ | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָ | bidrakheikha | in ways your | H1870 → | 707 times |
| מִיּ֖וֹם | miyom | from [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הִבָּֽרְאָ֑ךְ | hibareakh | are created you | H1254 → | 55 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| נִמְצָ֥א | nimtza' | it was found | H4672 → | 455 times |
| עַוְלָ֖תָה | ʾavlatah | unrighteousness <towards> | H5766 → | 54 times |
| בָּֽךְ׃ | bakh | in you |
תָּמִ֤ים[were] blameless
tamimH8549 →91 times
אַתָּה֙you
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָin ways your
bidrakheikhaH1870 →707 times
מִיּ֖וֹםfrom [the] day
miyomH3117 →2304 times
הִבָּֽרְאָ֑ךְare created you
hibareakhH1254 →55 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
נִמְצָ֥אit was found
nimtza'H4672 →455 times
עַוְלָ֖תָהunrighteousness <towards>
ʾavlatahH5766 →54 times
בָּֽךְ׃in you
bakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
it leads to
- Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
- Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- Revelation 20:1–3
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
- Revelation 12:7–9
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
- Jude 1:6
Through
Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
it leads to
- Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- James 2:10–11
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
- Galatians 3:10
Where this verse is studied
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.